Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 50 metre backstroke

Men's 50 metre backstroke at the 2009 FINA World Championships
Venue	Foro Italico
Dates	1 August 2009 (heats, semifinals) 2 August 2009 (final)
Competitors	142
Winning time	24.04 seconds
Medalists
Liam Tancock    Great Britain   Junya Koga    Japan   Gerhard Zandberg    South Africa
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The heats for the men's 50 metre backstroke race at the 2009 World Championships took place in the morning and evening of 1 August, with the final in the evening session of 2 August at the Foro Italico in Rome, Italy.

Records[]

World record
24.33	Randall Bal	Eindhoven	5 December 2008
Competition record
24.80	Thomas Rupprath	Barcelona	27 July 2003

Results[]

Heats[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Heat	Lane	Notes
1	Guilherme Guido	Brazil	24.49	13	4	CR, SA
2	Aschwin Wildeboer	Spain	24.50	14	5	NR
3	Camille Lacourt	France	24.52	13	5	NR
4	Liam Tancock	Great Britain	24.55	15	8
5	Junya Koga	Japan	24.57	15	4
6	Helge Meeuw	Germany	24.60	14	4	NR
7	Gerhard Zandberg	South Africa	24.68	13	8	AF
8	Flori Lang	Switzerland	24.75	14	3	NR
9	Juan Miguel Rando	Spain	24.77	13	3
10	Guy Barnea	Israel	24.79	14	9
11	Aristeidis Grigoriadis	Greece	24.80	15	7
12	Ryosuke Irie	Japan	24.87	15	6
13	Thomas Rupprath	Germany	24.92	15	5
14	Daniel Orzechowski	Brazil	24.97	14	8
14	Ashley Delaney	Australia	24.97	15	3
16	Mirco Di Tora	Italy	25.01	14	6
17	Nick Driebergen	Netherlands	25.08	14	7	NR
18		Italy	25.10	13	7
19	Matt Grevers	USA	25.13	15	1
20	Pascal Wollach	Canada	25.23	13	3	NR
21	Vytautas Janušaitis	Lithuania	25.24	11	5	NR
22	Aaron Peirsol	USA	25.30	14	1
23	Daniel Bell	New Zealand	25.31	13	2
24	Benjamin Stasiulis	France	25.32	13	6
25	Răzvan Florea	Romania	25.34	14	2
26	Arkady Vyatchanin	Russia	25.36	15	2
27		South Africa	25.39	13	0
28		Ireland	25.40	9	6	NR
29	Marco Loughran	Great Britain	25.44	12	6
30	Pavel Sankovich	Belarus	25.53	12	3
31	Stanislav Donets	Russia	25.54	12	4
32	Sung Min	South Korea	25.57	15	0
33	Markus Rogan	Austria	25.59	15	9
34	Jake Tapp	Canada	25.68	12	9
35		South Korea	25.77	10	6
36		Belgium	25.84	13	9	NR
37		Israel	25.94	11	6
38	Danil Bugakov	Uzbekistan	25.97	12	7
39	Cheng Feiyi	China	26.01	12	2
40	Derya Büyükuncu	Turkey	26.07	11	0
41	Radoslaw Kawecki	Poland	26.08	14	0
42	Andres Olvik	Estonia	26.11	10	7	NR
43		Poland	26.19	12	5
44	Donal O'Neill	Ireland	26.29	12	0
45	Pedro Medel	Cuba	26.35	10	5
46	Tomas Fucik	Czech Republic	26.40	9	2
47		Slovenia	26.41	10	4
48		China	26.42	11	7
49		Luxembourg	26.54	12	8
50	David Dunford	Kenya	26.62	8	6
51		Estonia	26.63	9	8
52		Austria	26.68	11	3
53		Morocco	26.69	11	8	NR
54		Singapore	26.70	10	8	NR
55	Mindaugas Sadauskas	Lithuania	26.71	7	7
56		Latvia	26.72	8	2
57	Andrejs Dūda	Latvia	26.84	8	1
58		Chile	26.94	9	5
59		Zimbabwe	27.01	7	9	NR
60	Stanislav Osinsky	Kazakhstan	27.06	11	1
61		Cuba	27.07	9	4
62		Trinidad and Tobago	27.10	9	9
62	Miguel Robles	Mexico	27.10	10	1	NR
64		Moldova	27.13	10	2
65		Uruguay	27.29	11	4
66	Glenn Victor Sutanto	Indonesia	27.32	11	9
67		Hong Kong	27.36	8	4
68		Vietnam	27.39	8	5
68		Zimbabwe	27.39	8	0
70		Turkey	27.51	10	9
71		Dominican Republic	27.58	7	3	NR
72		Faroe Islands	27.65	8	9	NR
73	Rony Bakale	Republic of the Congo	27.70	8	8
74	Radomyos Matjiur	Thailand	27.73	10	0
75		Sri Lanka	27.83	7	1
75		Guatemala	27.83	7	8
77	Yury Zaharov	Kyrgyzstan	27.94	10	3
78	Zane Jordan	Zambia	27.95	6	2
79		United Arab Emirates	28.05	6	3
80		Macau	28.15	8	7
81	Boris Kirillov	Azerbaijan	28.36	6	4
82		Namibia	28.38	6	9
83	Brett Fraser	Cayman Islands	28.47	6	6
84	Joao Matias	Angola	28.48	7	0
85	Samson Opuakpo	Nigeria	28.57	5	6
85		Armenia	28.57	7	6
87		Chinese Taipei	28.62	9	0
88		Lebanon	28.70	6	0
89	Mario Montoya	Costa Rica	28.85	6	5
90	Erik Rajohnson	Madagascar	28.90	9	3
91		Suriname	29.16	6	1
92	Ronny Vencatachellum	Mauritius	29.18	5	5
93	Tural Abbasov	Azerbaijan	29.28	7	4
94	Faiz Muhammad	Pakistan	29.33	5	8	NR
95		Grenada	29.60	5	1
96		Senegal	29.61	5	4
97		Saint Lucia	29.66	4	1
98	Kerson Hadley	Federated States of Micronesia	29.71	3	4
99		Northern Mariana Islands	29.75	4	6
100	Andrey Molchanov	Turkmenistan	29.76	3	2
101		Malta	29.82	5	9
102		French Polynesia	29.99	5	7
102		Macau	29.99	12	1
104		French Polynesia	30.15	5	2
105		Zambia	30.18	4	5
106		Mozambique	30.35	2	4
107		Mongolia	30.41	6	8
108		Papua New Guinea	30.56	4	7
109		Angola	30.64	4	4
110		Nigeria	30.83	4	9
111		Fiji	30.95	3	1
112	Mathieu Marquet	Mauritius	31.18	4	3
113		Guatemala	31.46	3	3
114		Honduras	31.47	4	2
115		Guyana	31.53	1	2
116		Papua New Guinea	31.55	3	8
117		Turkmenistan	31.58	3	7
118		Mozambique	31.66	7	2
119		Brunei	31.74	3	5
120		Albania	31.88	5	0
121		Iraq	32.22	2	0
122		Marshall Islands	32.26	2	6
123		Fiji	32.82	3	0
124		Eswatini	33.07	2	3
125		Maldives	34.06	2	7
126		Maldives	34.66	2	2
127		Tanzania	37.84	2	9
128		Burundi	39.17	3	6
129		Tanzania	43.64	1	4
130		Benin	46.10	1	1
–		Mexico	DNS	1	3
–		Sierra Leone	DNS	1	5
–		Djibouti	DNS	2	1
–		Burundi	DNS	2	5
–		Djibouti	DNS	2	8
–	Branden Whitehurst	United States Virgin Islands	DNS	3	9
–	Hocine Haciane	Andorra	DNS	4	8
–		Morocco	DNS	5	3
–		Bermuda	DNS	6	7
–		Philippines	DNS	8	3
–	Omar Pinzón	Colombia	DNS	9	7
–	Albert Subirats	Venezuela	DNS	11	2

Semifinals[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Heat	Lane	Notes
1	Liam Tancock	Great Britain	24.08	1	5	WR
2	Junya Koga	Japan	24.29	2	3	AS
3	Camille Lacourt	France	24.46	2	5	NR
4	Aschwin Wildeboer	Spain	24.48	1	4	NR
5	Helge Meeuw	Germany	24.59	1	3	NR
6	Gerhard Zandberg	South Africa	24.68	2	6	=AF
7	Mirco Di Tora	Italy	24.77	1	8	NR
7	Aristeidis Grigoriadis	Greece	24.77	2	7	NR
9	Flori Lang	Switzerland	24.78	1	6
10	Ryosuke Irie	Japan	24.79	1	7
11	Juan Miguel Rando	Spain	24.80	2	2
12	Guy Barnea	Israel	24.81	1	2
13	Thomas Rupprath	Germany	24.87	2	1
14	Daniel Orzechowski	Brazil	24.92	1	1
15	Guilherme Guido	Brazil	24.98	2	4
16	Ashley Delaney	Australia	25.02	2	8

Final[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Lane	Notes
	Liam Tancock	Great Britain	24.04	4	WR
	Junya Koga	Japan	24.24	5	AS
	Gerhard Zandberg	South Africa	24.34	7	AF
4	Aschwin Wildeboer	Spain	24.57	6
5	Camille Lacourt	France	24.61	3
6	Helge Meeuw	Germany	24.63	2
7	Aristeidis Grigoriadis	Greece	24.87	8
8	Mirco Di Tora	Italy	25.15	1

External links[]

• Heats Results
• Semifinals Results
• Final Results